A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from tripping down a gutter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had better balance. When these things come early in a process of re-whatever (I’m re-ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into […]
Author Archives: Stephen Collins
Week 1 — Mindsets and making it happen
July 26, 2009 – 11:34 AM
One of the biggest factors I have found in being motivated to lose fat and get fit is to have great mentors. The other is to, obviously, keep doing the right thing in terms of exercise and diet and the peripheral tasks around them. It helps to maintain the right mindset. So, this week, I […]
Day 3 and the munchies hit
July 22, 2009 – 2:54 PM
It’s always the way. When I’ve tried dieting in the past and not been successful (which is most of the time), it’s about now that I fall flat. I imagine it’s pretty much the same story for many people who struggle with their weight. We have great intentions but we aren’t often motivated enough to stick […]
Numb3rs
July 21, 2009 – 8:48 AM
The July issue of Wired (one of my favorite magazines) bears the tag line Living by Numbers. A significant proportion of the magazine is devoted to mental and physical hacks you can use to track your wellbeing bases on quantitative analysis. There are a bunch of great articles in there on the measurable benefits, especially […]
Day 1 — Training
July 20, 2009 – 4:54 PM
I promised Derek on the weekend when we embarked on talking about this that I would run 3km today. So I did. Almost. I took it easy and shuffled, knowing that this would mean I got through. I had to walk about half of the last kilometer after my calves complained loudly (that’s what carrying […]
Day 1 — Starts and first goals
July 20, 2009 – 2:49 PM
This used to be me. But not any more. I’m barely able to run 3km, let alone a 1.5−40−10 triathlon. That’s all about to change, for all the reasons in the first post here and more. So let’s look at my starting point: Weight — 94.0kg (207lb) Height — 170cm (5’7″) BF% — 30% (estimated) Resting heart rate — 72bpm Waist — 92cm (36″) Those are a long […]
The change
July 20, 2009 – 2:02 PM
A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a ManWeek post. He wanted me, and the others tagged, to discuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bouncing around in my head to say anything coherent. […]